The Straits Times, 6 August
2000. Both Koreas agreed to reconnect the railway that
links Seoul to Pyongyang, then continues to Shinuiju, a
major city on the North's border with China. North
Korea is expected to rebuild 8 km of the railway on its
side. The Koreas plan to start rebuilding a 20-km section
across the DMZ and finish the work in a year.

AFP, 13 August 2000. South Korea's Hyundai group
strikes deal with Pyongyang to build industrial park near
Kaesong, but doubts remain over the financing of the
project. It will be its window for trade and industry with
the outside world. Project is reminiscent of China's
creation of its economic zones in the early 1980s.

BBC, 10 September 2001. North Korea has agreed to allow
a feasibility study into laying a pipeline bringing gas
through its territory from Russia to the South. The latest
of a string of measures indicating a thawing of relations
between the two states.

By Kim Hyo-jin, Joon Ang Daily,
2 November 2003. Lee Woo-chun, president of Dosco Co., a car
engine component maker in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi province, is one
of a growing number of Korean businessmen who have been
drawn to the Gaeseong Industrial Complex, which is touted
as the centerpiece of North-South Korean economic ties.